SLegault’s Briefcase Is Out Of This World
27 06 2008
A bad pun I had to create a posting for just to use it.
The company Syl’s working for, Dynacon, is putting a Micro-satellite into orbit with help from the CSA. Very cool. I’ve never worked for a company Slashdot-worthy.
I kind of pictured a “Micro-satellite” as something that looks like the Hubble Space Telescope but about the size of my thumbnail… like a scale model or something that got caught in a shrink ray.
Instead, ‘NEOSSat will be the size of a large suitcase‘. Com’on! This thing tracks killer asteroids! Get more imaginative! At least put some bumper stickers on it.
Either way, it’s pretty cool whenever something you’ve worked on gets applied to the real world space.
Edit July 2, 2008: Updated to correct nomenclature and past/future tense.
Just a few corrections. NEOSSAT is a micosat not a minisatellite. Just to clarify the issue. Also NEOSSAT hasn’t launched yet. We recently passed the Preliminary Design Review.